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Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA)
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20- What law protects foreign investment in the Islamic Republic of Iran?
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21- What is the role of the regulations governing investment in Free Zones?
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22- What is the role of the regulations governing investment in Free Zones?
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23- What is meant by the term protection under FIPPA?
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24- What are those rights and privileges?
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25- Are there any other facilities and privileges available to foreign investors?
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26- What issues are specified in the investment license?
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27- Who is qualified to invest in Iran?
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28- How investments by Iranian nationals can be covered under FIPPA?
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29- Is the validity of the investment license limited time wise?
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30- Is it possible to extend the validity, and how?
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31- Are foreign state-owned companies authorized to invest in Iran in accordance with FIPPA?
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32- What are the sectors open to foreign investment in Iran under FIPPA?
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33- Does FIPPA consider pure commercial activities as foreign investment?
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34- Does FIPPA consider pure commercial activities as foreign investment?
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35- Is the legal protection under FIPPA extended to foreign investments automatically?
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36- How and under what condition an investment already carried out but not covered under FIPPA can enjoy FIPPA’s coverage?
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37- Is foreign investment permissible in existing firms? If yes how?
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38- How foreign investment can take place in an existing Iranian company?
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39- In what manners a foreign investor can invest in an existing Iranian company and become a shareholder?
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40- Under what legal framework BOT contracts are implemented?
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41- What is meant by proprietary rights?
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42- What is meant by assignment of proprietary rights in BOT contracts?
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43- Are foreign investment companies authorized to open bank accounts outside Iran?
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44- Is there any requirement for reintroducing export earnings to the Country for joint venture companies and investee firms?
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45- Can foreign investor insure his investment? What kind of insurance?
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46- Can foreign investor insure his investment? What kind of insurance?
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47- Which authority is competent to settle investment disputes between Iranian and foreign investors or between a foreign investor and the Government?
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48- How investment disputes may be settled?
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49- Is ownership of land by foreign nationals permitted in Iran?
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50- Is it permissible to own land by foreign nationals for the purposes other than personal use (i.e. industrial, agricultural, services, etc?
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51- Then how the “ownership of land” in foreign investment projects is resolved?
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52- What is meant by the term “ Iranian Company”?
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